Being middle-class in India : a way of life - Donner, Henrike (London : Routledge, 2011)
Introduction / Henrike Donner -- Masculinity, advertising, and the reproduction of the middle-class family in Western India, 1918-1940 / Douglas E. Haynes -- Gendered bodies, domestic work, and perfect families : new regimes of gender and food in Bengali middle-class lifestyles / Henrike Donner --'Keeping it in the family' : work, education, and gender hierarchies among Tiruppur's industrial capitalists / Geert De Neve -- Cultural contractions and intergenerational relations : the construction of selfhood among middle class youth in Baroda / Margit van Wessel -- Globalisation, neoliberalism, and middle-class cultural politics in Kolkata / Timothy J. Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase -- The social transformation of the medical profession in urban Kerala : doctors, social mobility, and the middle classes / Caroline Wilson -- Kitty-parties and middle-class femininity in New Delhi / Anne Waldrop -- Zara hatke ('somewhat different') : the new middle classes and the changing forms of Hindi cinema / Rachel Dwyer.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Middle class -- India -- History -- 21st century; Middle class families -- India -- Social conditions; Social mobility -- India; India -- Social life and customs -- 21st century